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<body><h2>Senior Linguist, Assistant Natural Language Understanding - Mountain View, CA</h2>
<p>Minimum qualifications:</p><ul>
<li>3 years of industrial experience managing a team in an engineering environment</li><li>Experience in planning and project management</li></ul><br/>
<p>Preferred qualifications:</p><ul>
<li>PhD in Linguistics, NLP, Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience</li><li>Knowledge of NLP, computational linguistics and internalization</li><li>Excellent track record of leadership and technical knowledge</li><li>Exceptional project management skills and ability to manage multiple and diverse stakeholders across business and leadership levels</li><li>Passion for the domain (Computational linguistics, NLP, Assistant and/or Consumer Products)</li></ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the job</b></h2><p>
Analytical Linguists work across Google to drive improvements in quality, classification, information structure, and natural language understanding and generation. As an Analytical Linguist you will work both on complex projects spanning multiple products, groups, and disciplines, and on tightly focused efforts to produce specific product components or answer specific research questions. Analytical Linguists work in many different areas and arrive with a wide variety of skills—your specialization might involve natural language processing and understanding, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, ontology, program management, human subject research, experimental design, statistics, corpus linguistics, large scale data acquisition, or any combination. This team is part of some of the most groundbreaking and exciting work at Google. It's our goal to use insights from linguistics and related fields to constantly improve our products.</p>
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Understanding natural language is at the core of Google's technologies. Our team guides, builds, and innovates methodologies around semantic analysis and representation, syntactic parsing, morphology and lexicon development. It's our goal to use insights from computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and related fields to constantly improve our products. Our work directly impacts the research efforts and other products throughout the company that utilize core Natural Language Processing (NLP) functionality.
</p><p>As a Senior Linguist, you will work on a diverse range of projects and will actively lead innovative computational linguistics/Natural Language Processing projects. You will manage a team of analytical/computational linguists and work to grow the team.</p><p>
There is always more information out there, and the Research and Machine Intelligence team has a never-ending quest to find it and make it accessible. We're constantly refining our signature search engine to provide better results, and developing offerings like Google Instant, Google Voice Search and Google Image Search to make it faster and more engaging. We're providing users around the world with great search results every day, but at Google, great just isn't good enough. We're just getting started.</p></div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Responsibilities</b></h2><ul>
<li>Assist in the recruiting and building of a talented and motivated team of computational linguists</li><li>Provide leadership and guidance to a team of analytical/computational linguists</li><li>Foster an inclusive, productive, and fun culture and environment for the team</li><li>Initiate projects that can make Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing exceptional using computational linguistics and data processing</li></ul></div>At Google, we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.</body>
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